And the The Welcome to Russian History Retold episode 163 Leo Tolstoy the later years of transformation. Last time The Later in Years of Transformation

Last time we told the story of the marriage of Leo and Sonia Tolstoy

as well as the events surrounding his writing and publishing

of two of his greatest works, War in Peace and

Anna Karinina.

I want to go back to that last episode and say something that I kind of failed to mention.

And that War and Peace and Dostayevsky's Crime and Punishment were published in the same journal

on alternative months.

So one month you get War in peace, the next month. Crime and punishment,

then back and forth. I mean, just think about that. Two the greatest pieces of literary

work in Russian or world history put out at the same time

written by authors who were to never meet each other in person.

That I find is an incredible tragedy. And also in a strange

irony between the two great authors was that Anna Karanina in the

serialized form was published by Katkof in the Ruske Vestnick, a reactionary

journal at the time that Tolstoy was now moving toward anarchism in the left.

And Fyodor Dostevsky, who was moving to the far right in his political views, would have his work

published in The Devils, or his work The Devils devils by the or his work the devils by the leftist

Nekrasov in the contemporary so it's kind of unusual the right wing published by

the left wing and the left winger published in the right wing.

I don't think that's something that we'd see in today's world.

Anyways, the praise being heaped on Tolstoy by now in 1878 was immense. He was the most popular writer in all of Russia and he was

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